If you’re like me — and for your sake, I hope you are, because it’s really awesome being me — you wear a t-shirt every day. Which is fantastic, because when you wake up in the morning, the ancient question of “What to Wear Today” is quickly solved.

The internal dialogue goes like this:

Me: “Hmm. I wonder what I ought to wear today.”

Other Me: “How about a t-shirt?”

Me: “That’s a fantastic idea. Thanks! But what should I wear for the bottom?”

Other Me: “I recommend wearing the same jeans you wore yesterday, because they’re nice and stretched out now, and will fit more comfortably than a freshly-washed pair of jeans.”

Me: “You’re exactly right. Thanks, voice inside my head!”

Other Me: “You’re welcome.”

Sadly, however, the choice to wear a t-shirt every day does come with a minor downside: laundry. Due to the absolute certainty that you will at some point spill food or wipe chain grease on your shirt (plus cumulative body odor and general grossness), you need to wear a clean shirt every day.

I am here to help. Specifically, I’m here to help you stave off doing laundry by one more day by presenting the new, 2011, Fat Cyclist T-Shirt Collection.

They’re super-soft. We had considered going with merely “soft,” but then I pounded my fist on the table and yelled, “Soft won’t do! These are my readers! They demand and deserve super-soft!” And the Twin Six guys totally caved. Pushovers.

Made in the USA. And you can bet that’s got China pretty upset.

Black, so you can wipe chain grease on them with total impunity

Guaranteed to push laundry day forward another day. Or two, if you buy both shirts.

Both shirt designs have a blank back, like this:

I daresay if you order these shirts immediately you’ll get them before Christmas. But you’d better order two (of each), because otherwise, you’ll get them and love them so much that you will keep them for yourself instead of giving them as gifts, as you originally intended. And then someone’s feelings are going to be hurt on Christmas.

Today is the last day of Twin Six’s awesome “6 Days of Christmas” promotion, and today they’re taking 30% off the price of all bags, wool trainers, wool jerseys, long-sleeve t-shirts, thermals, and hoodies.

And that, my friends, includes Fat Cyclist gear. So may I recommend that today is the absolute best day for you to pick yourself up a Fat Cyclist Wool Trainer:

I love mine — it’s a comfortable, classy-looking trainer, feels like a really nice, warm, totally non-itchy sweater. I’m wearing it right now. They usually cost $190, but today they’re much more affordable at $133. Click here to get yourself one. And then you — like The Runner and I — can look like Buddy Holly and do the Trainer Dance.

Or, if you’re looking for something more casual, maybe you should get yourself a Fat Cyclist Hoodie:

And here’s the back:

These things are so comfortable they border on the indecent; I wear mine (over a Fat Cyclist T-Shirt, of course) about three days a week.

The hoodies are already a screaming deal at their normal price of $40, but today they’re $28, which is approaching ridiculously inexpensive. My guess is these will sell out quickly today, so if you’re going to get one (for you or for someone else or both), you might want to do it now.

The hoodies come in men’s-specific and women’s-specific fits. The Runner tells me that the women’s -specific ones fit a little small, so you may want to go up a size.

“The you go on, I’ll ride sweep” should be on the back, so passing cyclists and other passers-by can see it. Having it on the front forces them to turn around and look at you, which could cause them not to pay attention to where they are going, because they would be looking at your awesome Twin Six Team Fatty collectors edition t-shirt, and would therefore be distracted and collide with another cyclist or other inanimate object, thus causing a crash of cataclysmic proportions, possibly resulting in bodily harm, various mechanical entanglements, and other nefarious outcomes.

This in turn might result in torn, shredded, mangled or otherwise damaged articles of clothing of Twin Six manufacture, which might therefore necessitate replacement of said damaged apparel by the expenditure of copious amounts of disposable and non-disposable income at Twin Six dot com.

I sat behind a guy in a Fat Cyclist hoodie at my kid’s martial arts belt test on Saturday; I immediately wanted one, but we’d probably end up at the next belt test wearnig the same thing and that might be awkward…

Aye ! the large hoodie sold out so I ordered the XL, should be OK & a T too.
But that’s not my reason for a comment, the reason is the earlier post…THE TWO GREATEST CYCLING PHOTOS I HAVE EVER SEEN…WOW !
I need to ride there, drove thru years ago in January. Quite stunning, red/orange rocks, sage in muted green/grey and deep blue sky. Nothing better except The Runner.

Another vote for the “sweep” quote on the back, still it is a great line. Oh, off topic and something to add to your potential events list for next year. The US mountain bike national championships will be held in Sun Valley Idaho July 14-17. Just so everyone knows.